The need of a global network for biodiversity information has been recognized as the supporting mechanism not only for the science community but also for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)...

As the importance of biodiversity has been recognized, researchers, governmental of fi cers, and people attracted by biodiversity have collected enormous amounts of biodiversity data for many uses (e...

Biodiversity, ecological, climatological, and environmental data, as well as valid models (e.g., Ecological Niche Modeling) are required to develop indicators that are more effective in assessing the...

The interpretation of a healthy diet is one of the dilemmas for our modern civilization. Advances in agriculture are mainly directed at increasing food production to solve problems of a growing human...

The emergence of genomics tools for the evolutionary and comparative biology community led to a rapid explosion in the number of online resources targeted at this specialized community, including Web...